Trevor Forrest

DP Trevor Forrest reflects on the National Geographic series Genius: MLK/X

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With its fourth season, the National Geographic series Genius presents a dual portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, inspirational leaders who paved parallel paths as pioneers in the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and ’60s. Genius: MLK/X traces their journeys from their formative years through their rise to prominence, as they each shaped a … Read more

Cinematographer Trevor Forrest discusses his work on Tell Me Your Secrets

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Cinematographer Trevor Forrest discusses combining the Millennium DXL camera with Primo 70 optics for the series Tell Me Your Secrets. The 10-episode series Tell Me Your Secrets interweaves the stories of three characters whose troubled pasts have set their moral compasses adrift and their destinies on a collision course. Following a stint in prison that stemmed from … Read more

NYC Notebook

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NYC Notebook Letter from America / TREVOR FORREST NYC Notebook Letter from America / TREVOR FORREST Manhattan is inspiring. High-rises, hidden away meeting places, and the family style living of Brooklyn, give NYC a lifeblood unlike any other city I know. Paris, London, Berlin, Budapest. European cities. They all have interior cultures and a full range of seasons, but … Read more

Trevor Forrest / Noble

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True Heroine Trevor Forrest / Noble True Heroine Trevor Forrest / Noble Having a dry run to make sure everything works is an ideal, but in some situations it’s just not practical. This is too often the case in filmmaking, where budgets, locations, actor and crew availability, not to mention logistics, make having a try-out … Read more

Trevor Forrest / Una Noche

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Cuban Minimalism Trevor Forrest / Una Noche Cuban Minimalism Trevor Forrest / Una Noche Whether it was Trevor Forrest’s partial upbringing in the Bahamas, or his month on Isle Grande in Brazil when he received the script for Una Noche, he and writer-director Lucy Mulloy seemed destined to make this film together.   Garnering much … Read more